On Friday Dice Holdings announced the purchase of FINS.com, the financial job board that powers WSJ.com and Marketwatch.com. The acquisition got me thinking: why do job boards buy other job boards? Why do they sometimes decide not to buy, but instead create…
You can't say it's been dull this past month. As the mercury has risen, so has the buying fever in our industry. Revenues seem to be rising as well, which will create even more acquisitions, I suspect. So, without further…
Man, time flies when you're blogging. It's been a while since the last news roundup, and a few things have happened. Like: Monster's for sale? Or not?: Well, I don't know. But rumor (and Sal Iannuzzi) has it that the…
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler have been conducting the landmark CareerXRoads Source of Hire survey for over a decade. In my mind, that's useful data. They've just come out with the 2012 edition, and it's absolutely worth a look. The…
If you read this blog, then you have at least a passing interest in job boards - so it's likely that you saw the news last week that Monster is laying off 400 employees and missed its quarterly earnings/revenue targets.…
Ok, it's been a bit more than a month since the last news round up - I blame it on the holiday season. But now I'm working off those Christmas cookies, so here's all the news that's fit to print,…
As another year draws to a close, it's time to take a look back at the year that 2011 was (man, that was truly an awkward construction, eh?). As usual, there was much sturm and drang about social media, the…
It's that time of the month - time to glance back and see if anything really happened in the past 4 weeks. Surprisingly enough, it did. Here's what I noticed: Monster partners with Ogden Newspapers: Monster adds to its bevy…
Another week, another 'job boards are dying' blog post. If I had a dollar for every post like this, I'd be a (moderately) rich man. Truly. I try to avoid the 'job boards are dying' discussion because (a) it's a…
What exactly is happening in the job board and online recruiting world? Well, to paraphrase Neil Young, 'job boards never sleep' (okay, yes, that was awful!), so here's a quick roundup of some industry tidbits: JobTarget continues growing: The software…